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t NITED STA'rns EDWIN SNAPE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DINNERPAILS.

Speccation forming part'of Letters Patent No, @33.290, dated February 10, 1874 application filed December 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWIN SNnrn, of the city of Brooklyn, 'in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dinner-Pails; and I do hereby declare` that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyiu g drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

My invention has for its objectto provide a dinner-pail for workmen in which their dinner can be carried from their home in the morning and, in a few minutes before eating, it can be made warm without removing it from the pail, or without regard to locat-ion or condition. The nature of my invention consists in a dinner-pail provided with a heating-lamp underneath it, admitting the draft to support comhustioni'rom below, and with two rims surrounding the lamp and the bottom of the pail, and lapping by each other, with a space between them and the lamp and between each other, opening also over the inner and under the outer rim, for the passage of the products oi' combustion from the lamp, while protecting the flame thereof against the wind outside, all substantially as herein specified.

To enable others slv'lled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure l is a View of the bottom of the apparatus, Fig. 2, a central vertical section there of; Fig. 3, a side view of a part detached.

Letters of like name and kind indicate like parts in each of the ligures.

A represents the body of the dinner-pail, made in the ordinary way, in the bottom of which it is designed to carry tea or coiee, while the upper portion B is intended for food. The portion B is made separate from A, and fits loosely but closely into A., and can be readily forated cylinder, I, through which the air is made to pass when the said cylinder extends upward nearly to the bottom ofthe portion ot' the pail A at the point O. rlhe lamp D is secured by any well-known means to a base, G, the bottom of which is fully perforated for the purpose of allowing a supply of air to the burner.

At the lower part ot' the portion of the pail Ar is a projecting rim, II, which extends outward from and below the bottom of the portion A, and on the inside ot this rimH is another rim, J, secured to the riin H, so as to form an annular space between the two rims. The inner p rim J, it will be observed, is set a little away from the bottom of the portion A, so as to forni a space between them, as seen at c, for the passage ot the products of combustion from the lamp D, as shown, in the direction of the arrows, and, at the same time, to prevent the wind from blowing out the lamp. L L L represent the legs on which the pail stands. I) represents the bail or handle by which the pail is carried. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-'- The combination of the dinnerpail A, provided with the rims II J, arranged as described, and the lamp D, substantially as and for' the purpose herein specified.

EDYVIN SNAIE.

W'itnesses M. ROGERS, L. ROGERS. 

